National Honor Society Reflection Paper

As surprising as it may sound, I have been doing community service since the sixth grade and it is a new experience each time. It all began with a community clean up known as 'Keep McAllen Beautiful' as we got there everyone seemed excited to be there. It was beautiful to see such unity inside of my community, and I decided from then on that I would like continue helping out where it is needed. As I joined the National Honor Society my chances of providing my services increased, and I decided that I would assume a position of leadership when needed. I became the society's president, which allowed me to develop my time management skills, creativity, and efficiency. I organized an fundraiser for the hurricane Harvey disaster victims where all

In this regard, the most important part of service to me personally is giving back to the community. Volunteering is my way of providing service to others, it is not only effective, but it’s a good way to meet people, to learn, and to develop social skills. By helping or supporting others, I learned and used new skills in communicating with people and I have gained confidence in myself through different interactions. Providing aid to a family in need or helping out an elementary teacher is necessary, because as people it should be our natural tendencies to support one another, and bring aid when aid is due. For example, at Seven Lakes High school I created the Girls for Krause Club. It was given the name the Girls for Krause club after the Krause Center; a center in Katy that fosters girls who have been taken out of their homes due to sexual harassment, parental mistreatment or mental issues. My first visit to the Krause Center was with my youth group at church. I was so touched by all the girls at the center, and how open they were about their situation. I remember one of the girls telling me thank you, for treating her like “a regular person.” This interaction gave me the incentive to create the Krause club, because I wanted to allow other girls my age to interact with these girls and bring attention to a center that wasn’t well known in my community. Moreover, creating the Krause club has been rewarding and a way to showcase

As a second year National Honor Society student, the last couple of years I have been more focused on ways I can help my community to help get all my service hours in for the end of my high school NHS career. I’ve always loved doing little things to help someone who needs it but I never thought about the things that I do everyday count just as much as the other things. Community service to me, is more than just holding the door open for someone, picking up trash, or helping someone with their groceries. I want to help people grow and be a better person while serving my community. I want to do more than volunteer, I want to impact the lives of people and I feel that is what I have done.

I would be a good representative for the National Junior Honor Society. I believe this because of two things. The first reason is that I get exceptional grades. I try my best to maintain my average over 95. I do not fret when I get a bad grade. Instead I think of it as an opportunity to try even more on the next test or quiz and a chance to learn from my mistakes. The other reason is because I enjoy helping others. I like to help my fellow classmates with their homework if they do not understand it.

From day one my mom taught me that you will get more satisfaction giving to and helping others than you ever will by just doing things for yourself. I truly believe this. Volunteering to teach swimming lessons, organizing recycled items, and visiting the nursing home are all things I have been involved in and doing each of those I have learned more and more about how important service is. Just recently my classmates and I helped an elderly woman move all of her belongings out of her home and into the 4H building for an auction. The 4H building is on the fairgrounds where I have volunteered to clean up every spring for the last 3 years. Service is very important but also very rewarding. I look toward to doing more service projects in the

I am a member of National Honor Society. We volunteer and help people in anyway we can. So far I have about 20 hrs of community service. I helped my teacher moved everything in his class during the summer. I helped an old woman raked leaves in her backyard. I volunteered to assist my high school's registration. I lend a hand to elementary school children and basically played and watched them. I assisted a youth wrestling tournament. There are many more services in which I hoped to help out.

So you ask me why should I be able to join the National Honor Society. Well let me tell you why. Society always characterizes people based on race, income and etc, but a person that looks different than others can be someone great if they are given a chance. So let not my race, my income or my personality changed the way you view me as a possible member of this organization. I may have not been in many clubs like others have because of economical reasons. How would you like it to be work everyday with your family before school and after and even when you have break or off for privileges? No, it wouldn’t be nice but I have to do and I also have to maintain my grades in the 90’s because I had to mature quickly as a child. At the beginning I

I am extremely honored to be one of the students considered for the National Honor Society. This club has been something that I’ve been looking forward to since the beginning of freshman year, and now that I’m finally eligible I couldn’t be more excited to take part in what this club has to offer. I have grown enormously as a person and as a student since I was a freshman, and I believe that the scholarship, leadership, and character I exhibit will allow me to benefit National Honor Society and benefit myself.

From being active in my community I have learned that after giving, you receive the best feeling. My freshman year, my friends and I dressed up like Disney princesses and sang at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. I have gone back two more times because I am in love with cheering people up. Since this experience, I have made it a mission to always continue to participate in community service. From meals-on-wheels, to adopt-a-spot trash clean up I am always ready to help out the community.

While I have been blessed with many opportunities that helped me grow by pushing me to new limits, my volunteer work at South McKeel Academy through National Honor Society is my most memorable. The way I was brought upon this experience was not with the average vote. One morning I showed up to the 7 A.M. meeting ready to hear about how all

Through my church, family and The Boy Scouts of America I have learned to always give back and serve my community.  As an adolescent and young man I have been able to give back to my community by volunteering in free stores for the less fortunate, food pantries, and serving free lunches during the summer to school age children.  Even though this has helped build my character and shape my decision for my future, the most significant service project I have been a part of has been my Eagle Scout Service Project.  I learned an important lesson in project management and taking responsibility for something significant. This act of responsibility has helped define my transition from a child to a young adult I can be proud of.

With personal growth being a large part of attending college, my Honors Orientation 102 class would be forever placed as the most impactful class of my college experience. Originally the class introduced and familiarized my class to the campus and college life. Then a transitional came where we went from learning about ourselves and the school to a class about the importance of community. The quality of virtue has been taken advantage of in the normal public and this class taught me that that’s not an absolute. As a final project, my entire class embarked a tree, not just an ordinary tree, but a tree of community. The class of 30 separated into three groups to take on different branches of the tree. One branch was the “Church”. This project

The class size of Washington State University is what first led me to inquire more about the program. Being from a small school with small class sizes I was delighted to find a veterinary program with the same aspect. The hands on experiences WSU offers right away because of the access to the hospital influenced me to apply. The best part in deciding to apply to WSU was the well roundedness of the program. I felt like in deciding to apply to Washington State University I was deciding to take a chance at enhancing many facets of my life.

Throughout my life and academic career, I have continually provided service to the community in many different ways. My first such experience came during my time in elementary school when, each year, myself and many of my classmates would engage in a day of service on Martin Luther King Day. We made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a local food cupboard, played bingo and did arts and crafts with elderly residents in a retirement community, and even played music for nursing home residents. These early year activities introduced me to the idea of giving back and helping those in need. This is an idea I have taken very seriously and, since that point, I have continued to prove my dedication to serving the community.

School is something that is required for everyone to take. It is where everyone goes to learn through the academic classes. Many go in hopes of being able to achieve their dream by attending school every year. But many others, including myself, believe that a majority of the classes that we have to take do not support us for the future we are trying to pursue. Sure, the classes we take in elementary school are the proper stepping stools for future development, but I’m not talking about those classes. I’m talking about the classes we take in high school. I go to a Vo Tech high school which helps you choose your career path through the Career and Transitions class (CAT). Only certain parts of the career and transitions class are actually useful. We had a good month to look at the options that we could choose to have as our career area for the next three years of high school. The rest of CAT class was extremely unnecessary. We had to read a book about habits that a “highly effective teen” would have. We spent practically 3 whole marking periods on this book and I believe this could have been spent on something more beneficial for our future. This book was meant for us to change our bad habits into good ones, but nobody had taken this class seriously because they realized that there was no reason to do something like this. During that time, I wished that we could have learned about the Spanish language because it would be a lot more enjoyable and wouldn’t be a waste of time when